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Originally Posted by Shanser  Hey everyone,
I noticed in the subforum a lot of disparate episodes are being upped (along with the full 12th season) and the copies are much higher quality than the digitaldistractions rips of the seasons. I was wondering if anyone was intending on compiling the fulls seasons again in a torrent with the higher quality rips. I would certainly seed those for a long time if they were put up. |
The Digital Distractions online files were captured in Canada from Food Network Canada about two years ago. The website (and trackers) have been offline since September 2007 and anything left over only serves as a testament to the long lasting power of decentralized tracking that Bram Cohen built in. Computer processing power, readily available applications and general user knowledge and ability to save TV to hard drive has advanced considerably since that massive endeavor by the Canadian collector that undoubtedly helped a lot of people see what they want to watch, without borders.
As far as season 12 being fully posted, that should not come as a surprise, as of present it only consists of 6 episodes so far. As seasons 10-11 seemed to top out at around 19-20 episodes, unless that production trend has changed, we could be looking forward to another 13-14 new episodes of Good Eats this remaining year. Yet with Alton Brown being on the road, or ahem, on the "waves" with filming the 6 part mega series "Feasting On Waves", I would expect season 12 to top out at 13 episodes, meaning we have just 7 more to see in 2008. The newest one will likely be broadcast on September 5th with repeats on the 6th and 7th leading into the new "Feasting on Waves." That is consistent with Scripps trends.
Whatever appears online seems to be fairly random recently, (if you can call random almost entirely comprehensive) and there does appear to be a good amount of saturation. What I don't understand is why Scripps doesn't follow the example of BBC, and just simply allow people to watch what they want, when they want, online, as it seems pretty obvious that fans are going to collect and trade what they want, regardless.
HULU.com looks promising, as someone finally realized that people want to watch TV on the Internet, and you can find full episodes of a lot of programs on there, like big hitters, South Park, The Simpsons, etc. Apparently Food Network is toying with the idea as they have added "clips" to some of their shows quite recently. The web broadcasts are salted with ads, but that seems to be fair enough to people, doesn't bother me, I am used to ads.
I think that in the next few years you will see a strong shift away from file sharing (because that IS what we are talking about), where broadcasters and production companies will begin to embrace the Internet instead of running scared of it. I believe they will learn to adapt to an ad revenue based distribution method via broadband to satisfy their consumers and keep up with the growing competition amoungst online aware distribution vs. ignorant and rejective, and start to fill the consumers insatiable video appetites more.
In the late 90's people were predicting that the New York Times would go out of business as people would not read papers anymore. Well, they are still around, big as ever, yet they have learned to deal with the Internet. Broadcasters are presently still trying to learn how to deal with the Internet.
My prediction is that by 2012-2015, all past TV will be online. Might have to pay a small price, or be subjected to ads, but there's really no other option, other than what you have seen and commented on.
I've seen people post a request for a Good Eats TV episode here, and by some simple magic it appeared online in less than an hour.
Happy Downloading my friend.
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